trifling

"A piece about alienation might feel very trifling next to a piece about gun violence in some ways," said Yuval Sharon, who directed the original production.

To state the obvious, the big picture is all this is trifling and academic because the government won by a million miles, with a majority of 120.

This cavalier treatment of tragic circumstances is of a piece with the entire musical’s approach to the hardships Annie endures—they’re treated as trifling in the face of her new life in the Warbucks mansion.

“Whether the special counsel’s office was ‘established by Law’ is not a trifling technicality,” he wrote.

As one court put it in 1868 while upholding the acquittal of a man who whipped his wife, the judiciary could “not interfere with family government in trifling cases.”